Social Inequality

Let's talk about social equality. What I am about to write comes from the book ' Race How blacks and whites feel about the american obsession" by Studs Terkel......... This view was written by Douglas Massey- Professor of Sociology, University of Chicago, written 20 yrs ago still stands true, evermore so today....." In these past years we've become a unequal society. It started in 1973 with the recessions. In 1980 Regan came to power, the tax cuts benifited the better off. Incomes for the top ones just shot way upwards. By the end of the eighties, the income inequality was the greatest it's been in fifty, sixty years. There's been this tremendous transfer of wealth from the poor and middle class to the rich......The quality of our public life has deteriorated so much, we need something like a new WPA program. Look at our bridges( highway in Minnesota bridge collapse) look at our highways, look at our buildings . By rebuilding these facilities, we can create jobs for people without alot of education. It will benefit everyone, not only the poor. Private affluence and public squalor, something John Kenneth Galbraith pointed out thirty years ago, is the accepted order of the day. It's gotten worse........Now you have three class of people. There are those who own capital. They've done extremely well these past twenty years. There are those who own human capital-their education, their skills: the upper middle class. They've done pretty well. And you've got those who have only their labor to sell. they've done badly. The only way out of this bind is making sure everyone has a chance at education. Until then, we need governmental WPA projects to jump start this whole process........WOW!!!!!!! This was written twenty years ago under the old Bush regime. Guess what's going on now under Bush Jr, Wake up AMERICA!!!!! before it's to late.... Social Change In Mind. Peace!!!